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Hackers are relentless and it's unsurprising. One successful exploit can give them access to a fortune. Thankfully, security experts are mostly on our side. Just three months ago, Microsoft security experts discovered a security flaw in the macOS TCC framework. And just recently, they uncovered yet another...
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If you read the headline and thought "wait, what about PCIe 6?" then you must have missed when the spec was finalized back in January... of 2022. That's only three years ago, though, and it is true that PCI-SIG has been accelerating the pace of interconnect development. But why?
The simple answer is "AI". Neural...
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Though Apple Intelligence launched late last year, the company is still struggling to nail down core features that are part of its AI efforts. One of these features, notification summaries, is supposed to make it easier for users to digest notifications by showing the most relevant information. Unfortunately, these...
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After what seems like a decade (because It almost was...) Nintendo has finally officially revealed its Switch 2 console. It draws a lot of similarities with the original Switch, with a few physical changes such as a larger size. Nintendo knows it had a good thing with its original console, as the sales numbers will...
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A couple in Marshfield on Price Edward Island, Canada got a unique surprise on their Ring doorbell camera feed last year. While the owners were out on a walk, their camera recorded the once-in-a-lifetime sound of a meteorite hitting the ground. Thankfully the crash happened with no injuries or major property damage;...
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Though we're only midway through January (and just scratching the surface of 2025), it feels like the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season is now a distant memory. Be that as it may, there are always deals out there, even now with holidays having already come and gone. We've rounded up a few that caught our...
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OnePlus 13R - Priced At $599 The OnePlus 13R offers incredible performance, great battery life and a plethora of features, for a much lower price than competing phones. Bright, beautiful display Excellent performance Fast wired charging, charger in the box Refined software with good update commitment Long...
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Samsung's SDI battery and electronic materials manufacturing division may be prepping a new battery technology for the Galaxy S26 series. An unconfirmed (albeit reliable) report is stating that 2026 Samsung flagships could start using compact high-density silicon-carbon battery cells, following in the footsteps of...
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NVIDIA is once again readying a special version of its flagship consumer graphics card for the Chinese market, which be called the GeForce RTX 5090D. As we saw with the GeForce RTX 4090D, a special version of the previous generation flagship for China, there will be some limitations so as not to run afoul of US...
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Now that AMD's latest-generation Zen 5 processors have been on the market for a minute or two, the wait is on for the inevitable launch of a new round of Ryzen Threadripper processors. They're presumably coming, as evidenced by multiple leaks. The latest such leak is a shipping manifest that lists out a couple of...
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The gaming industry has taken a dip since the historic highs of the COVID lockdown era. The impending release of the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, which has gamers searching high and low for any shred of information, is currently considered so big that it could potentially shock the industry out of its doldrums, bring new gamers
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There is growing discontent among users with the way big tech companies like Meta and X have monopolized the social media scene. As a result, new platforms are emerging with the goal of challenging these major tech giants. Just three days ago, Meta was accused of deleting posts containing links to one of Instagram's...
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AMD briefed us on the Radeon RX 9070 series and the RDNA 4 architecture when going into CES 2025, but the company's brief 45-minute keynote completely skipped over the topic of graphics and GPUs, with nary a mention of the word "Radeon" outside of the context of AI processing. The company's excuse was that it simply...
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Sony is adding a solid set of new game titles for the month of January to its PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, for users who subscribe to the Extra and Premium tiers. The lineup includes one of the gaming giant’s crown jewels, a few indie darlings, and some classic games that will bring a smile to the face of retro...
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There's nothing quite like the guttural growl of a V8 at full song, especially in a modern Aston Martin. Even the British marque's baby Vantage sportster gets the spine tingling when your right foot goes deep into it. Last year, Aston Martin made the hardtop even better with a bunch of appearance and cabin...
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For tech media like Hot Hardware, the new year means a plethora of new tech, as CES in Las Vegas kicks off just after the holiday. It's always exciting to see the new products and fresh announcements, but the multitude of reveals and unveilings can be tough to track, especially if you're at the show. If -- like us -- you're all about the latest
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Hard facts can be a problem for generative AI bots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Despite being fed a glut of digital information, AIs sometimes hallucinate complete nonsense. Google has forged a new partnership with the Associated Press that could help make Gemini a font of supposedly accurate news.
Google says...
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Lexus' RC may not be the most iconic or most memorable two-door in automotive history (unlike its own LC 500), but those who have experienced it praise its blend of luxury accouterments, smooth ride, mid-pack performance, and design that has aged rather well. For fans and admirers of the RC series, today marks a sad...
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Boss battles can be frustrating, but even more infuriating is when your game console gives up the ghost. I had this happen with an Xbox One X back in the day, and fortunately it was under warranty (and thus easy to have replaced). For those who are not so fortunate, Microsoft announced it is expanding its...
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With CES 2025 behind us, the GPU landscape is taking on some paths that are quite exciting. For example, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series will release at the end of the month, with some stunning specs on display. AMD, NVIDIA's biggest competition in the enthusiast GPU space, so far has been quite elusive about its new...
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Honor is globally releasing the Magic 7 Pro slate phone initially to Europe and the UK, three months after China's rollout. As an Honor, the specs are expectedly impressive to take on the likes of Vivo, OnePlus, and Samsung. The Magic 7 Pro boasts a 200MP periscope telephoto camera, high-end display, 5,270mAh...
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ASRock Challenger Intel Arc B570: $219 MSRP Intel's even more cost-friendly Arc B570 Battlemage GPU brings strong feature support like XeSS 2 with frame gen and solid 1080p performance. Although, for just $30 more, B580 offers better performance-per-dollar value. Strong Feature Support Solid New Software Superior...
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